Staff Software Engineer – .NET / Windows Platform (On-Prem, MSSQL) - hybrid

About CyberArk

CyberArk, a Palo Alto Networks company, is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With Identity Security, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere. Learn more at cyberark.com.

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About the Role

This is a systems-focused, self-hosted (on-premise) .NET role, not a typical application-layer or cloud-first position.

You’ll work on a foundational platform deployed in customer-managed environments, where decisions span code, database behavior, and runtime/infrastructure characteristics.

This platform manages machine identities—certificates, keys, and trust relationships—inside enterprise environments where reliability, performance, and correctness are critical. The systems you build directly impact how organizations secure and operate sensitive infrastructure.

The platform is primarily built on .NET Framework and Windows-based systems, so engineers in this role must be comfortable working in and maintaining Framework-based, on-prem environments.

We welcome engineers from modern .NET Core environments who are able to work beyond abstraction layers and adapt to system-level constraints.

If you care about how systems behave in production and want your decisions to directly impact performance, reliability, and long-term system design, this role will be a strong fit.

What You’ll Do

• Own system behavior across application, database, and runtime layers in self-hosted environments
• Diagnose and resolve issues such as slow SQL queries, resource contention, and performance bottlenecks
• Design and optimize data access patterns and database performance (beyond ORM abstraction)
• Build for real-world deployment environments (Windows services, on-prem systems, long-lived installations)
• Lead technical discussions and walk through code, system behavior, and tradeoffs in real time
• Mentor engineers and elevate system-level thinking across the team
• Use AI-assisted development tools to improve efficiency while maintaining deep understanding and production-quality standards

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What You Bring

• Strong .NET experience (Framework and/or .NET Core)
• Deep C# fundamentals, including:• object lifecycle and dependency injection
• threading and concurrency
• memory behavior
• async/await execution

• Strong MSSQL experience (query tuning, execution plans, indexing, diagnosing slow queries)
• Ability to understand and optimize database behavior directly, not rely solely on ORM abstraction (e.g., Entity Framework)
• Experience building systems deployed in self-hosted or customer-managed environments
• Experience working in systems where infrastructure, deployment model, and runtime behavior influence design
• Ability to clearly explain and reason through technical concepts in real time

Why This Role

• Work on a foundational platform in a security-critical domain
• Solve problems across code, data, and system behavior
• Make decisions that have long-term impact in real production environments

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. 

The salary range for this position is $156,000 – $189,000/year, plus discretionary bonus, which will be based on the employee’s performance, and equity. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.